Paddy Mahon

Patrick "Paddy" Mahon was a Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) sergeant during the Irish War of Independence.

Biography
Patrick Mahon was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, the brother of Arthur Mahon and Jimmy Mahon. The three boys came from a working-class family of Irish Catholics, and, in order to escape poverty, Arthur joined the British Army during World War I, while Paddy joined the Royal Irish Constabulary and had risen to the rank of Sergeant by the time of the Irish War of Independence. He fought on the opposite side of the war as his brother, as his brother was a socialist IRA rebel; Paddy often found himself attempting to arrest his brother and his allies.